So, a bunch of people on the left demand this stuff, then they don’t buy the books. It’d be one thing if there really was an untapped market, but it doesn’t seem to exist. These people demanding “representation” merely want to be the gate keepers, not actually interested in a product that want to buy. You see a bit of this in video games as well.
There’s no audience for these characters. Then on top of it, alot of these books, most of them, aren’t even well written. So, characters with limited appeal, plus lame writing? Sounds like a great sales pitch.
And the funny thing is, there’s always been dervisity in comics. It just wasn’t this crazy social justice warrior stuff back in the day.
Why would they? Super heroes fighting evil?! It goes against their philosophical bent.
I’ve never been into comic books; I assume that is something people initially get into when they are children. Why market these books to 1) populations that don’t have children, or 2) populations that are notorious for not reading - with content that is offensive to your large clientele of “normal”?
Small wonder these “diversity characters” fail any focus group testing...
The purpose was not to make money, but to propagandize the reader.